"Mm." Gu Xiaozhan felt much better about the woman wanting to follow him on her own accord.
Mu Anhan quickly took this opportunity to slip out of bed and rushed to wash up.
Watching her run faster than a rabbit, Gu Xiaozhan wondered if he was really that scary.
The two appeared together in the dining room, where a sumptuous breakfast had long been prepared on the table.
A large variety of breakfast foods spread out on the table: lotus leaf sticky rice chicken, crab roe shumai, layered ice meat pastry, green bunny dumplings, honeycomb taro dumplings...
The sight was dazzling with a variety of shapes complementing each other, filling the air with a rich aroma.
Mu Anhan was overjoyed; this man really understood her!
Everything she loved to eat was on the table.
What a rare treat, to not have to eat vegetables for breakfast.
"Zhu Chen, call the two children to come and have breakfast." Gu Xiaozhan usually left home early and seldom had breakfast with them.
"Yes!" Zhu Chen acted immediately.
Gu Xiaozhan didn’t pick up the chopsticks; instead, he grabbed the English newspaper on the table to read.
Mu Anhan thought this man was rather old-fashioned; fathers of their generation rarely read newspapers!
Reading newspapers at the table was something grandfathers did, yet Gu Xiaozhan actually browsed the paper too!
With the newspaper covering his face, the breakfast on the table smelled too delicious, and she was so hungry her stomach was glued to her back, waiting for the children to come downstairs so they could eat together.
She quietly reached out, grabbed a crab roe shumai, and quickly popped it into her mouth.
But it was too hot!
She wanted to spit it out, but was afraid this man would see her sneaking food!
She had to swallow it forcefully, quietly panting as if that eased the heat in her mouth.
Then, a cup of warm water was handed in front of her.
Mu Anhan looked over; he had already put down the newspaper: "Eat openly, why sneak it?"
She took a sip, pouting, "Isn’t the Gu Family known for being strict?"
Last night at the Gu Family Manor, she didn’t get full because there were too many dining rules.
"Let’s see if you’ll go again next time?" Gu Xiaozhan snorted coldly.
Though criticizing her, he picked up the chopsticks and offered her a piece of layered ice meat pastry to her mouth.
Mu Anhan immediately opened her mouth and ate it.
Her heart was sweet, her eyes sparkling, "Thank you, dear!"
"Daddy, I want some too..." Gu Yu had already run over, snuggled into Gu Xiaozhan’s arms, her little mouth pink and pouty, chirping like a little bird for food.
Gu Xiaozhan fed her a honeycomb taro dumpling and then lifted her into a chair.
Gu Yao, on the other hand, was quite sensible, climbed into a chair by himself, and greeted politely, "Daddy, Mommy, morning!"
Mu Anhan looked at Gu Xiaozhan’s attitude towards the two children and found him to be a double-standard dog.
Feeling sorry for her son, she immediately offered a crystal shrimp dumpling to his mouth, "Yao Yao, morning!"
Gu Yao was startled, somewhat caught off guard.
Normally at the dining table, Mu Anhan never fed him.
Though he’s a little man who must listen to his father and take care of his sister, someday bearing the responsibility of the Gu Family, he was still just a three-year-old child!
He yearned for fatherly and motherly love, for the warmth of family!
"Don’t like it? Want Mommy to change it?" Mu Anhan was also at a loss; though the child came from her belly, she hadn’t taken care of him, feeling very insecure inside.
Gu Yao’s long, curled lashes blinked, effectively hiding his emotions, and he opened his mouth to eat it.